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Is it just me, or do people seem to be getting 'trashier' in our society? I mean wtf??? I read stories like this and I don't even know where to begin....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9497217/Instagram-star-cat-Ponzu-dies-injuries-getting-yanked-young-boy.html
An Instagram star cat has died from injuries suffered during an altercation in a New York City park, which sparked a huge brawl which left his owners battered and bruised.
Ponzu, who has 23,000 followers on the social media site, died of a heart attack following the incident in McCarren park earlier this month.
The famous cat was being walked in the park by owner Chanan Aksornnan, 34, and her boyfriend along with her other pets - a dog, another cat and a bird - on April 4.
At some point, a boy aged around 12 is understood to have tripped over Ponzu's leash.
Aksornnan claims the boy intentionally pulled on the leash, dragging the cat along the ground and ripping out its claws before flinging him into the air.
Ponzu, who had a heart condition, suffered a heart attack and died at the scene.
That led to an altercation between Ponzu's owner and the boy's large family, which soon turned violent.
Cellphone footage from the incident shows Aksornnan being punched and kicked on the ground by a crowd of people.
One man in the video also appears to pull her dog's tail.
Police have confirmed they are hunting for one suspect, described as 'a white female Hispanic, 57, 200 lbs., with red hair and a pony tail'. No arrests have been made.
The cat owner's boyfriend - who has not been named - is also said to have been injured during the assault.
Aksornnan said the suspect told her: 'This is what you [get] when you walk you f*****g cat b***h.'
Aksornnan told Greenpointers: 'The family not only did not offer any apology nor remorse.
'They immediately began a verbal abuse which escalated into a physical assault.'
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)WTF
Calculating
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Bayard
(22,063 posts)diane in sf
(3,913 posts)Including the cat torturing kid.
Zeitghost
(3,858 posts)corporal punishment on a 12 year old? Seriously?
Coventina
(27,115 posts)Sociopaths are notoriously hard to treat, but maybe since he's young he can be helped.
It sounds as if he's been conditioned by his family that such behavior is acceptable.
I think his whole family needs to be incarcerated as well. Well, the members that participated in the violence. Maybe not all the family is violent.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,370 posts)Celerity
(43,340 posts)ShazzieB
(16,389 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)I does sound as if he slammed it around intentionally.
John Ludi
(589 posts)I have less and less hope for the future.